Caroline Gibson's Freedmen Bureau Labor Contract - 1865

"Now atter de wah us didn' eben know us was free causn'
Mis' Ma' Ann hadn't neber tole us but Grandma went to de Freeman's
Bureau an' got us livence to leave. An' us lef' off'n de Cooper
place an' farmed on halves fo' some udder peoples." Mary Ann Ervin Kitchens,
Ex-slave of William Cooper in Copiah County, Mississippi